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The ancient Greek legislators considered marriage to be a matter of public interest. [1] Marriages were intended to be monogamous. In keeping with this idea, the heroes of Homer never have more than one wife by law, [3] though they may be depicted with living with concubines, or having sexual relationships with one or more women.
Xenia (Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality. It is almost always translated as 'guest-friendship' or 'ritualized friendship'. [ 1 ] It is an institutionalized relationship rooted in generosity, gift exchange, and reciprocity. [ 2 ]
The wedding party may form a receiving line at this point, or later at a wedding reception, so that each guest may briefly greet the entire wedding party. At the wedding reception. Drinks, snacks, or perhaps a full meal, especially at long receptions, are served while the guests and wedding party mingle.
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Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, the youngest daughter of the late King of Greece Constantine II, married her fiance in an Orthodox ceremony in Athens on Saturday. Royals from both ...
Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...
Of course these days most couples — especially older ones — live together for years before tying the knot, in which case personalized gifts and experience gifts might be a better choice.
Storge (στοργή, storgē) means "love, affection" and "especially of parents and children". [10] It is the common or natural empathy, like that felt by parents for offspring. [11] It is rarely used in ancient works, almost exclusively to describe family relationships. It may also express mere acceptance or tolerance, as in "loving" the tyrant.